I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I think as he gets older, Quentin [Tarantino] is growing more and more into his directorial side, but the writer in him… — Bun B Copy Share Image
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's… — Prince Copy Share Image
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex,… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
![“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/don-hertzfeldt-16260_angle_i-ve-never-felt-really-creative-or-intui_2968544.jpg)
![“Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.” quote by Jennifer Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45f/jennifer-weiner-2358_felt_maybe-it-stems-from-my-newspaper-reporti_219469.jpg)
![“I think as he gets older, Quentin [Tarantino] is growing more and more into his directorial side, but the writer in him won't stop the pen. I don't think he deserved a directing nod. Like I said, it's beautifully shot - it's cinematography, obviously, deserves a nomination - but he's not the…” quote by Bun B](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad5/bun-b-10711_cameras_i-think-as-he-gets-older-quentin-taranti_1299082.jpg)
![“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all…” quote by Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/261/prince-1626_believe_when-i-m-writing-songs-some-days-the-pen_1718202.jpg)
